Prospect

A South Carolinian scion was facing stiff penalties for killing federally protected hawks. Rep. Clyburn asked Judge Michelle Childs to consider his character.

There’s a world of difference between Biden’s possible picks. And then there are administration policies that afflict and even endanger Black women.

Until omicron came along, the shutdowns of a Zero COVID policy were the best way to stop the disease’s spread. Now, more than ever, it’s the vaccines and antivirals that make the difference.

American workers are on the march—something the government isn’t measuring.

Today on TAP: Appointing a centrist whom Republicans love is the wrong sort of bipartisanship.

Another poor, majority-Black city in Michigan is facing a lead contamination crisis brought on by gross apathy and neglect, but without sustained national attention.

A decision limiting the federal agency’s power to combat the climate crisis could potentially have wider, catastrophic effects across a broader range of health and safety issues.

Are state education officials doing enough to support teachers and students?

Today on TAP: The union campaigning to organize an Alabama Amazon warehouse is hoping it will.

A 2-2 tie on the Federal Trade Commission empowers Republicans to block action into bad actors in the economy—and Senate Republicans are enabling this.

While the Fed and the Treasury dither, this behemoth is getting too complex to contain.

In Maryland, clean-government groups want to create the post of public advocate to advance voters’ causes and call out government sleaze.

Today on TAP: As banks and corporations made fortunes from the pandemic, some workers accidentally got too much unemployment comp. Until we enact an excess profits tax, let them keep it!

Famine grips the country, but ruthless lawyers are smelling profit.

A nation of exceptional bullies and hypocrites

Joe Biden wants to unfreeze Afghanistan’s financial assets to hand them over to 9/11 families while Afghans themselves continue starving.

Today on TAP: It’s scandalous that Congress let it lapse.

Robert Kuttner joins Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti on Breaking Points to discuss the role of China in gumming up supply chains.

Does the ongoing campaign to unionize the Amazon warehouse, where 85 percent of the workers are Black, portend a return to large-scale campaigns in the region?

As billions flow to the Gateway Program’s Hudson River megaproject for new bridges and tunnels, an audit finds that Amtrak has serious work to do—in-house.